Health care activists appropriately enough down on Wall Street - since we couldn't get a widely supported and sane bill like H.R. 676 due to the same corporate stranglehold on government Americans are objecting to in demonstrations across the country - a government that is supposed to be representing The People - not CEOs and their record profits.

In the youtube below, NYC Healthcare Now! activist Kate Robbins speaks at Saint Vincent's Hospital in the West Village of Manhattan, where a single-payer march culminated. HCN reports that protesters gathered at Liberty Plaza, and then headed out from the offices of Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, a subsidiary of WellPoint, the largest publicly-traded health insurance company. Saint Vincent's closed earlier this year due to bankruptcy, and as a casualty of profit-driven insurers. There are now no hospitals on the West side below 57th St.

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